As today was a lot of Asian commie crap on April 2, 1966, let's do this instead. Yesterday was April Fools Day, and so I looked through the list of songs that were #1 ON April Fools Day, as released by Cashbox and Billboard. Now, there were 8 times at least one of them had a chart on release date April 1st from 1945-96 (the "Cashbox Era"). One of those times was messed up because CB didn't start putting their charts out on Saturday until, after a 12-day absence, they switched to Saturday on November 8, 1947. As a result, they had an April Fooler in 1946 (Oh, What Seemed To Be by Frankie Carle and orch.), while BB had theirs in 1944 (Jimmy Dorsey's Besame Mucho). The other seven times, they even matched the song every time- EXCEPT for one year BB switched to Mondays for about 6 years, which meant they missed an April Fools that CB didn't. So, here's your opening contest: Which one of these songs got lost in Billboard's Monday shuffle, and did not make a BB April 1st chart?
1950- Music! Music! Music! by Teresa Brewer;
1961- Blue Moon, Marcels;
1967- Happy Together, Turtles;
1972- A Horse With No Name, America;
1978- Night Fever, Bee Gees;
1989- Eternal Flame, Bangles;
or 1995- Take A Bow, Madonna!
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Hi, fellas! Ready to try this again?
John: Whatever gets our names on the marquee, wot?
That's the attitude! So this week, we had 20 contestants from 89 stations, and...
Ringo: Hey, wait! Where's Parsley?
Well, as usual, he took a week off with you all coming in, and...
Paul: That's rather a poor showing! And after we did his Christmas thing!
John: What to expect from a bloke who thinks Bologna Casserole is haute cuisine...
George: For God's sake, DON'T Mention that stuff! My stomach still growls...
Perhaps we could get on with it, despite MR Petty Pants and his ill-timed vacations. Anyway, after we take out the three that never charted, the one that hit here last year, and the two that haven't debuted yet, it left us with what started out to be a real close 9-way battle... and ended up a tight five way battle for second, and a runaway winner! Gentlemen, who's first?
Paul: Well, I don't see as Richard should go at all, considering he snuck in here last week...
Ringo: An' whose fault was that that I didn't receive notice of the change in plans?
John: We taped a note to your bloody bedroom door!
Ringo: Which fell off, and me mom popped it in the rubbish! You couldn't have got me on the phone...
George: Oh, your line is connected this week?
Guys! I think what I will do is have our attorney dope this out! Horace...
HB: Good heavens, you lot! This is how you behave in public?
Ringo: Generally it's how we behave here...
While they get this on track, I believe we'll watch one of this week's two M10 debuts! At #10 this week, here's brand spanking new Maddie and Tae...
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Okay, have we got it hashed out?
HB: I believe it will go swimmingly from here. Oldest first, please...
Ringo: That would be me. BUT, they have convinced me to step aside so the lads can evenly divide the finalists between them, in return for doing the Overseas, If You Please.
Okay, but that usually goes after the Finalists and the next video...
Ringo: Which I have also magnanimously agreed to, in lieu of not having to divide last week's paycheck four ways, as the contract may have required...
May have?
HB: It could be fought on circumstances, but the gentlemen know how fair I am...
John: Which is why we let him come to you when you gave him that job offer...
Fine. Finalists, please?
John: As second oldest, I will start the rotation. Choose from...
These Boots Are Made For Walkin', Nancy Sinatra, #7 on CB this week...
Paul: It is my honor to introduce OUR tune, Nowhere Man, at #3 this week.
George: I have the Lovin' Spoonful with Daydream, at #5...
John: Me again, with the Righteous Brothers with Soul And Inspiration at #8...
Paul: It is again my honor to introduce NOT our tune, but Cher with Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down) at #15...
George: And lastly, the Mamas and Papas with California Dreamin' at #4.
Thanks, guys, thanks, Horace! And your dubious assist this week: Where the full Panel placed on 1966's year end chart:
79- Slim Harpo, Baby You Can Scratch My Back
69- Yardbirds, Shapes of Things
60- finalist, Nowhere Man
50- BJ Thomas, I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry
46- finalist, Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)
37- Rolling Stones, 19th Nervous Breakdown
27- finalist, Daydream
26- finalist, These Boots Are Made For Walkin'
17- finalist, Soul And Inspiration
10- Rascals, Good Lovin'
1(tie)- finalist, California Dreamin'
1 (tie)- SSgt Barry Sadler, Ballad Of The Green Berets
And now, here's the debut at #9. I have heard the news items about this guy recently- you can find them on your own if you like. I have seen his apology, I believe it to be sincere. I am not a cancel culturist, and this is all I will say on that subject. Coming in at #9, brand new stuff from Har Mar Superstar:
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You may not know the face, but you probably know the voice- game show announcer, Charlie O'Donnell, the main voice until his death on Wheel Of Fortune (1975-80, 1989-2010). And why is he on the 6D? Because his was the voice on a song-collage of 1966 news events read as a nightly news broadcast, with the Christmas hymn Silent Night woven through them as a counterpoint, not surprisingly called, Seven O'Clock News/Silent Night. This was on the lp Parsley Sage Rosemary and Thyme lp, which you might guess correctly was the Simon and Garfunkel disc that featured the song Scarborough Fair. It also held the 6D victim this week, sitting at #6 without a Panel vote- Homeward Bound.
Ringo: Oh, yes, it looks so different when you spell it! Anyway, both South Africa and Australia were playing These Boots Are Made For Walking; New Zealand had Herman's Hermits, with A Must To Avoid; those wonderful and tasteful Canadians were playing Nowhere Man; and back home, we were grooving to the Walker Brothers and The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Any More.
Also, our agreement allows me to tell you that this week's biggest mover was Paul Revere and the Raiders with Kicks, up 45 from 86 to 41.
Thank you, R-I-N-G-O!
Ringo: Excuse me? Oh, oh right, yes, very droll. Ha ha!
So which year was it that Billboard did their "let's try Mondays" experiment? Well, it was between April 29th of 1957 and January 6th of 1962, so if you took Blue Moon by the Marcels, you're a winner!
And now, the rest of the M10:
8- Weezer spends its 8th week on at #8, down a pair, with Grapes of Wrath. Anyone else catch that line I love, "Hanging with your Yossarian/He's kind of just like me/We fight 'til we get free" ?
7- Elton John up 3 with Big Man In A Little Suit.
6- Dami Im up one with Lonely Cactus.
5- Pale Waves on the way back down, 3 to 5 with You Don't Own Me.
4- The Fratellis up one with Action Replay.
3- In its ninth week, Home Free and Don McLean's American Pie slips one more back- and takes over 2nd all time. Holding this spot would tie it for first next week.
2- Only one week at the top for The Explorer's Club and Don't Waste Her Time, sliding back one.
Which means the new #1-
,,,Matthew Sweet and Blown Away!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the Panelists...
California Dreamin' got you 5.6%...
These Boots gets 6.7%...
Daydream and Bang Bang get you 7.8%...
Nowhere Man got you 8.9%....
So yer winner, with 30.33%....
...The Righteous Bros with Soul And Inspiration!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Join me and the Brothers, Lord willing, next time for 1967!
A lone man looking for means of expression in a tsunami of information. Seeking truth justice and the American way in the perspective of a Nixon conservative. And the Commissioner of the free world's smallest and best fantasy football league.
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